Peelable heat-seal sheet material



I Patented May 22, 1945 signor to Dennison Manufacturing Company,

a corporation of Massa- Framlngham, Mass., chusetts No Drawing. Application August 11, 1941,

' Serial No. 406,414

5 Claims. (01. 117-122) This invention relates to adhesive coated sheet material adapted to be activated to aclhesiveness by the application of heat, and its principal object is to provide a heat sealing label, tape or the like which may be readily ,applied and be- 7 come firmly adherent, to fabrics such as cotton sheeting and like surfaces, but' which may be peeled off without leaving any deposit on the fabric and without injuring its finish.

Labels and like sheet material suitable for application to fabrics, prepared in'=accordance with prior art practices, .are usually provided with an adhesive coating consisting essentially of water activataible materials such :as animal glue, dextrine, etc.

Such compositions are not satisfacbers are generally satisfactory in preparing adhesive compositions of the aforesaid type, the most satisfactory cyclo-rubbers are those. pre-' pared by reacting a rubber solution with chlor'os tannic acid or the like, or a halide of an amphof teric metal, as described in United States Patents Nos. 2,050,209 and 2,052,391, which product is sold under the trade name-Pliolite, and also those prepared by reacting rubber with certain phenolic compositions .in the presence of a suitable cata-- lyst, as described in United States Patent No.

' 2,158,530, which product is sold under the trade tory in that they either tend to adhere to the fabric to such an extent that they cannot be peeled or stripped \Qfi without fouling or without :name Isolac.

available on the market is madeby the -Marbon Corporation .and sold under the trade name iMarbonB.

The relative proportions of wax, rubber and cycle-rubber may be varied in accordance with impairing the finish of the fabric and consequently it is necessary, to wash the fabric :to remove the 'label; or they lack the capacity to adhere to such surfaces :and hence do not withstand handling of the fabric.

I have found that when rubber-wax mixtures are modified by the addition of cytlized rubber, the resulting mixture yields an adhesive composition which is resistant to cold flow, substantially free from tackiness and yet relatively elastic at ordinary temperatures, and which becomes sufficiently soft at sealing temperatures of the order of 200 to. 400 F. to become firmly adherent to textile fabrics and like surfaces, but which does not become sulficiently fluid at such sealing temperatures to wet the fabric and thus prevent peeling off without-leaving a deposit or injuring the surface of the fabric.

The wax may comprise any one of the normally solid waxes such as paraffin, beeswax, carnauba, ceresin, spermaceti, candelilla, japan, shellac, etc.,

as well as their synthetic equivalents, and mixtures thereof. The rubber may comprise any one of the natural and synthetic rubbers and their equivalents, including such naturally occurring substances as hevea rubber, balata. gutta-percha, gutta-siak. gutta-kyak, pontianiak. 'guayule, and certain wild rubbers and rubber-like resins and,

in general, all straight-chain polymeric sub, stances possessing the physical characteristics of the so-called elastomers. I

The term cyclized rubber or cyclo-rubber'is intended to include only those compositions which result from chemical transformation of the rubber molecule by cyclization, as described by Marchionna in Latex and Rubber Derivatives, volume III, page 1312, et seq. Although I have found that all commercially available cyclo-rubthe physical characteristics of the specific ingre- 'dients selected, but :as a general rule the proportions should come within the following range:

. In preparing a composition in accordance with the present invention any suitable mixing apparatus such as a Bambury, Werner &'Pfieiderer or the like may be used, with or without the use of solvents, although I prefer to use mixed solvents such as naphtha and benzol, towhich a small amount of alcohol may be added. If desired, suitable antioxidants and copper inhibitors may-be added, as well as coloring materials such as finely ground pigments. Where, as is preferred, the adhesive composition is dissolved or dispersed in a suitable solvent in an amount which produces the desired viscosity, the resulting solution may be directly applied to the surface of a sheet of paper or like material, and to this end any conventional coating machine may be employed.

A specific example of a composition prepared in accordance with the present invention isas follows:

Antioxidant and copper inhibitor 1.5

Another satisfactory cyclo-rubber The paraflin is first melted and the major portion, of the benzol and all the naphtha is added; after cooling, the rubber and Pliolite are added and 'stirred in until dissolved. Thealcohol m ay then be added and'the'antioxidant and copper inhibiv j j A dry coating prepared from the foregoing composition has a softening temperature of approxiinately 150 F. anda sealing temperature between 2 and .40011, within which range thevcoating becomes pressure sensitive andisreadily applitor, dissolved in the remainder of the benzol, may

then befadded to the batch. In event it be desired to dilute" the lacquer thus prepared, it-m'ay be thinned bya mixture of 2- parts naphtha to i cjableto fabrics and like surfaces. When cool,

' the'adhesive film becomes relatively firm and nontacky and the sheet material may be strippedor peeled of! from the fabric without leavingiany residue or impairing its finish, H g It should be understood that the present dis- J 2,370,??? g V for zoo-400 F. without substantial loss of cohef sion, said coating consisting essentially of approximately 50 parts wax, fpa'rts cyclo-rubber. v g I 3. Sheet material having a thermo-adhesive fcoating which is resistant to cold flow, substan- Z tially free from ta'ckinessand relatively elastic at normal temperatures and which becomes-pressure 1 sensitive at sealing temperaturesof the order of closure is for the purpose of illustration and that c the invention includes all modifications andequivalents which fall within thegscope' of the appended claims. a

1. Sheet material. having a. thermo-adh'esive coating which is'resistant to cold flow, substantially free fromj'tac kiness and relatively elastic at normal temperatures and which becomes pressure sen'sitlve at sealing temperatures of the order-of 2 00-40971. without substantial loss of cohesion, v said coating consisting essentially of 40 to 60 cyclo-rubber;

3 2.-,She'et'material parts wax, 10 to parts rubber, and 20 to 40 parts" i }200-400 F. without'substantial loss of'cohesion, said coating consisting essentially of .40 to 0 parts jparaflln' wax haxing a melting point of the order 3 yet 140 F., 10 to 30 parts rubber, andv20 to 40'parts cyclo-rubberr V j v 4. Sheet material having a thermo-adhesive coating which'is'resistant to cold flow, substan- ;tially free from tackiness and relatively elastic at ;normal temperatures and which becomes pressure sensitive at sealing temperatures of the order of 200-400 F. without substantial loss of' cohesion, said coating consisting essentially of wax, rubber and c'yclo-rubben .the wax being present in an 1 amount at least as great as the rubber and cyclogrubber.

jtially free from tackinessandrelatively ,elastic at n'ormal' temperatures and which becomes pressure sensitive at sealing temperatures ofthe order of 200-400 Frwithout substantial loss of cohea sion, said coating consisting essentially of approxgimately parts parafiin wax having a melting point of the order of F approisimatelym parts rubber, and approximately 40 parts of cyclo-rubber derived from'the reaction product formed from rubber in solution by treatment with chlorostannicacid or the halide of an amphoteric 1 metal.

ERNEST L; KALLANDER.

parts rubber, and, 25 v 5. Sheet material having a thermo-adhesive coating which is resistant to cold flow, substan: 

